Monday, October 1, 2012

Krishna, Clinton discuss US visa fee hike, gurudwara shooting

Krishna, Clinton discuss US visa fee hike, gurudwara shooting


Krishna, Clinton discuss US visa fee hike, gurudwara shooting

Posted: 01 Oct 2012 10:59 PM PDT

India's concerns over the US visa fee hike, steps taken to improve trade ties with Pakistan and the Wisconsin gurudwara shooting were among the host of issues discussed between External Affairs Minist...


Indian taxi driver guilty of raping drunk student

Posted: 01 Oct 2012 10:32 PM PDT

A 28-year-old Indian taxi driver was on Tuesday found guilty by an Australian court of raping his inebriated female passenger last year in Brisbane.


'Vatileaks': A behind-the-scenes look at Vatican politics

Posted: 01 Oct 2012 10:19 PM PDT

The "Vatileaks" scandal that has led to the trial of Pope Benedict XVI's butler for theft involves hundreds of letters that passed across the pope's desk over several months in 2011 and early 2012. Th...


Arnold Schwarzenegger hopes to save marriage despite 'stupid' affairs

Posted: 01 Oct 2012 10:14 PM PDT

Arnold Schwarzenegger says he still hopes to salvage his marriage despite admitting multiple affairs, including one in which fathered a child with the family housekeeper.


Attackers of Lt Gen KS Brar had 'long beards': Scotland Yard

Posted: 01 Oct 2012 10:12 PM PDT

Scotland Yard has appealed for information from members of the public on the Sunday night assault on Lt Gen KS Brar, and described the four assailants as wearing dark clothing, long black jackets and ...


Cheating spouses keep Pakistani private detective busy

Posted: 01 Oct 2012 09:29 PM PDT

Twenty-three years of military service come in handy when Masood Haider gets a call from a suspicious spouse. In deeply conservative Muslim Pakistan where arranged marriages are common and adultery ca...


At least 36 dead after Hong Kong ferry sinks following collision

Posted: 01 Oct 2012 07:49 PM PDT

At least 36 people died and dozens were injured when a ferry carrying more than 120 people on a company outing collided with another ferry and sank near an island south of Hong Kong on Monday night in...


Lt General KS Brar: They slashed my neck, but I fought back

Posted: 01 Oct 2012 07:32 PM PDT

Lieutenant General Kuldeep Singh Brar, who led Operation Blue Star against Sikh militants holed up inside the Golden Temple in 1984, was stabbed and injured in London. General Brar and his wife w...


Syrian minister accuses US of stoking 'terrorism'

Posted: 01 Oct 2012 07:26 PM PDT

Syria's foreign minister brought his regime's case before the world on Monday, accusing the US and its allies of promoting "terrorism" and blaming everyone from neighbours and extremists to the media ...


White House admits cyber attack, says no data lost

Posted: 01 Oct 2012 10:23 AM PDT

The White House acknowledged on Monday that one of its computer networks was hit by a cyber attack, but said there was no breach of any classified systems and no indication any data was lost.


India calls on international community for zero tolerance on terrorism

Posted: 01 Oct 2012 10:19 AM PDT

India on Monday called on the international community to join forces to dismantle terrorist sanctuaries and adopt a "zero tolerance" approach towards terrorism, which continues to be the "most potent"...


Fatal shooting mars Venezuela election campaign

Posted: 01 Oct 2012 10:06 AM PDT

The brother of a truck driver killed in a shooting during a campaign caravan called for justice on Monday, saying in an interview that his brother was a committed opposition activist who took time off...


Pakistan's reference to Kashmir at UN unwarranted: SM Krishna

Posted: 01 Oct 2012 09:35 AM PDT

India on Monday hit out at Pakistan for making an "unwarranted" reference to Jammu and Kashmir at the United Nations (UN), asserting that the state was an integral part of the country.


Afghanistan to issue multiple-entry visas to Pakistani businessmen

Posted: 01 Oct 2012 08:12 AM PDT

The Afghanistan government has agreed to issue multiple-entry visas valid for six months to Pakistani businessmen, accepting a long-standing demand of the community.


Twitter, Facebook would have raised fatwa danger: Salman Rushdie

Posted: 01 Oct 2012 07:39 AM PDT

British author Salman Rushdie said on Monday that if a fatwa calling for his murder over his book The Satanic Verses had been issued in the social networking era, it would have further endangered his ...


Russian court bans 'extremist' US-made anti-Islam film

Posted: 01 Oct 2012 07:06 AM PDT

A Moscow court on Monday banned as "extremist" a US-made anti-Islamic film that fed deadly protests across the Arab world but whose showing was backed by human rights supporters in Russia.


New bounty offer in Pakistan for Prophet filmmaker

Posted: 01 Oct 2012 06:10 AM PDT

A former Pakistani legislator has offered a $200,000 bounty for anyone who kills the maker of an anti-Islam film that has angered Muslims around the world.


Ikea deleted women from Saudi version of catalogue

Posted: 01 Oct 2012 05:58 AM PDT

Ikea is being criticised for deleting images of women from the Saudi version of its furniture catalogue, a move the company says it regrets.


Maldives' first elected President on trial

Posted: 01 Oct 2012 05:36 AM PDT

The Maldives' first elected President said he did not expect a fair hearing as he went on trial Monday in a case that could see him jailed or banished to a remote island and barred from future electio...


Bangladesh deploys troops after attacks on Buddhists

Posted: 01 Oct 2012 05:03 AM PDT

Bangladesh sent in troops to guard Buddhist neighbourhoods on Monday after Muslim mobs carried out fresh attacks on temples and homes over Facebook photos deemed offensive to Islam.


Voters in Georgia deciding fate of government

Posted: 01 Oct 2012 04:41 AM PDT

Voters in Georgia are choosing a new parliament in a heated election on Monday that will decide the future of the pro-Western government of President Mikhail Saakashvili.

Pipeline fire in southeast Nigeria kills 20

Posted: 01 Oct 2012 04:33 AM PDT

A government spokesman says 20 people in southeast Nigeria died when a broken gasoline pipeline caught fire, burning alive those gathering the fuel.

Bangladesh blames Muslim Rohingyas for temple attacks

Posted: 01 Oct 2012 04:28 AM PDT

Bangladesh accused Muslim Rohingya refugees from Myanmar on Monday of involvement in attacks on Buddhist temples and homes in the southeast and said the violence was triggered by a photo posted on Fac...

Children killed, Syria hits back at US over chemical arms

Posted: 01 Oct 2012 04:24 AM PDT

Syria on Monday accused Washington of seeking to topple the Damascus regime by raising fears over its chemical weapons stockpiles, as shelling and air raids killed dozens more civilians, including chi...

Historian Eric Hobsbawm dies at 95

Posted: 01 Oct 2012 03:40 AM PDT

Eric Hobsbawm, one of Britain's most eminent historians, has died at the age of 95. Daughter Julia Hobsbawm said on Monday that her father died overnight at a London hospital. He had been suffering fr...


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